Happiness Makeover--Eating Frogs

A patient come into our office this week and was telling me about a book he was reading called "Eat That Frog." I think that the title was inspired by a quote by Mark Twain that goes "Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” Okay, I cannot begin to imagine eating one of the frogs from my porch (pictured here) but I like the basic idea of the book which is that if you stop procrastinating and do the thing (or things) that you dread the most, quickly and efficiently the rest of the day is a cake walk.

Yesterday was the first day of my "Happiness Makeover." However, it had to begin with my eating more than one live frog. Since Carl is working nights this week that left me to get all the dogs walked, in the pouring rain. When I got everyone back inside, dried off, and fed I walked on the treadmill for about an hour.

The next live frogs I ate was deciding that I should tackle cleaning and vacuuming my van. I've really been putting that off, and Carl hasn't had time to do it for me. But I was going to be picking up a friend for lunch and if you could have seen my van, you would have agreed it REALLY needed to be done. You may recall that I love fast-food cheeseburgers. These are the prizes that I've collected when I've ordered a childs meal from McDonalds or wherever I happen to stop--I've got quite a collection going, don't you think?
With a clean van and an empty stomach I was off to lunch! I had steak and chicken fajitas that I very much enjoyed! After I took my friend home, I stopped off at the office where I work to get something I'd left there. Someone had dropped off a cake, and I had a piece (with ice cream) and chatted with a coworker for a few minutes. When I left the office I did some grocery shopping (at Wegmans of course). Afterwards I decided to pick up frosted-chocolate-peanut-butter-blondies at a local bakery for later. I really love their rich chocolate and peanut butter flavor. I couldn't resist, so I ate one on the way home. Later I fixed dinner for Carl and I. For some reason I wasn't that hungry... The rain continued to POUR down all day, but as Thursday ended there was a break in the clouds. This morning I'm taking Charlie and CarrieAnne to the vet for their yearly visits. Carrie, being extremely shy around people she doesn't know, doesn't like going to the vet, so it'll be her frog for the day. Charlie's will be, becoming totally traumatized by having annual blood-work and a rabies vaccine--He's such a terrier!

I'm meeting a friend later for lunch. I don't think there's going to be any "live frog eating" today but it's still early. What are your daily-frogs or the thing(s) you resist and put off doing? Laundry? Vacuuming? Going to work? Getting out of bed?